Sentence examples for kept in lockdown from inspiring English sources

Like healthy inmates in solitary confinement, they live in isolated cells, kept in lockdown as long as 23 hours a day.

An assistant warden, Cathy Fontenot, said that the three men had to be kept in lockdown because "they have tremendous influence with the inmate population".

Security had collapsed to such an extent in the city, and anti-American sentiment had become so high, American officials and aid workers were often kept in "lockdown" by the American Consulate, meaning they had to work at home or get permission to move from home to office.

And they were often kept in lockdown units or held in the hole.

Although the virtual intelligence is kept in lockdown in another research station, Archers tells Shepard that he/she needs to manually override security from two other facilities to gain access to it and shut it down.

Foxconn's factories are kept in virtual lockdown with extremely tight security.

With children kept in a protective lockdown during school and police officers with drawn guns pulling over scores of possible suspects, the mood remained chaotic into the night.

Romano said the youth is "in lockdown" at York's mental health unit for 22-23 hours daily in order to keep her separated from others.

Nevada state Sen. Debbie Smith, who was at the medical center campus when the shots erupted, was one of those kept under lockdown until police cleared the scene.

It was "the most exhausting of all of my records I've released in my 'career,'" Herren wrote on MySpace, and "literally has kept me on lockdown from most the world..

In Bahrain last year, byelections were boycotted by the opposition because they were held amid an atmosphere of intimidation, with hundreds jailed for crimes relating to free expression and with a number of restive Shia villages kept under security lockdown.